protoPath does not seem to work

[bjoernmayer]

Hey there,

we have had enough from protoc and its code generation and therefore want to migrate over to wire.

Currently we have one gradle module with all proto definitions and the generated classes.

My plan is to split definitions and generated classes into multiple projects:

• definitions
• protoc
• wire

protoc and wire would then have a dependency on definitions.

I tried to build the definitions library with and without wire gradle plugin.
The resulting jar is the same though. I can clearly see the protos in it.

Then, in wire I want to actually generate the classes. This is my kts:

plugins {
    id("library")
    alias(catalog.plugins.wire)
}

dependencies {
    protoPath(projects.libraries.protobuf.definitions)
     // implementation(projects.libraries.protobuf.definitions) // also tried uncommenting this one
}

wire {
    kotlin {
        escapeKotlinKeywords = true
        permitPackageCycles(true)
    }
}

Unfortunately, no classes are generated. Do you know why?

Cheers
Björn

[bjoernmayer]

I should have used protoSource instead of protoPath

dependencies {
    protoSource(projects.libraries.protobuf.definitions)
}

works just fine

[oldergod]

Thanks for confirming 🙏